The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 89

I may find some use for that,' he said; and hastened down to the sea, waiting till he could lay hold of some stray rope which might float towards him.

Who acts: I, some, stumble, stray rope · What happens: find, use, say, hasten down, wait, lay · To what, where: sea, hold, stray rope · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, some, stumble, stray rope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 use	nsubj
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 find	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 use	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 find	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 hastened	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hastened	cc
14	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 hastened	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hastened	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 waiting	punct
20	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 hastened	conj
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 lay	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lay	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 lay	aux
24	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 waiting	advcl
25	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 rope	case
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 rope	det
28	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 rope	amod
29	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hold	nmod
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 float	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 float	aux
32	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 rope	acl:relcl
33	towards	towards	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 float	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	may	I				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	use	present	some			for that	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	stumble				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hasten down	participle			the sea		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination
5	wait	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lay	could	stumble	hold of some stray rope			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
7	float	might	some stray rope			towards stumble	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination
8	hold			some stray rope			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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